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Night after night this summer, members of the Army’s historic Old Guard have slipped into Arlington National Cemetery in T-shirts and flip-flops to photograph each and every grave. Published August 28, 2011 Comments
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Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America’s bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War. Published April 12, 2011 Comments
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To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War, the Georgia Historical Society unveiled a historical marker Friday summing up the history of “40 acres” outside the cotton merchant’s mansion that served as Gen. William T. Sherman’s headquarters toward the end of the war. Published March 6, 2011 Comments
By JoAnn Loviglio - Associated Press
The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero’s welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle. Published September 6, 2010 Comments
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A decade after the raising of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley off the South Carolina coast, the cause of the sinking of the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship remains a mystery. But scientists are edging closer. Published August 8, 2010 Comments
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair is visiting Beijing this week to take part in a secret ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of two U.S. electronic eavesdropping posts in western China. Published November 26, 2009
The DIA is sticking by its estimates of when China will deploy a fifth-generation jet fighter despite recent remarks by a Chinese general that Beijing's most advanced jet could be fielded by 2017. Published November 19, 2009
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During the Civil War, there were people in the North and South who opposed their governments' war policies and expressed their views through song. Published November 19, 2009
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Pity our recent secretaries of state. While they fly around the world for photo-ops, real policy is being made by the president, most often in consultation with his national security adviser. Published November 19, 2009
Federal investigators chasing e-mail and other communication links between Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki should consult a new book that cites documents on the al Qaeda imam. Published November 12, 2009
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My daughter confided in me that she wanted to become sexually active with her boyfriend, and as parents, we did not want to put our heads in the sand and ignore this issue. After about three months of talking with us, she said she knew she wanted to proceed on this course with her boyfriend. Published November 12, 2009
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One of the untold stories of the American Civil War is the incarceration of 102 black soldiers among the more than 45,000 Union prisoners who were held at the infamous Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville Prison, in Georgia. Published November 12, 2009
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Sometime in the fall of 1862, a patrol made up of troopers from the 5th Iowa Cavalry rode out of Fort Donelson in Tennessee looking for guerrillas. The Yankees soon spotted and captured two armed men in woods near Dover. Published November 12, 2009
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Not many writers on Civil War topics can garner a dust-jacket endorsement from a former president of the United States, but Jimmy Carter calls Roger Pickenpaugh's "Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union" "a vivid description of conditions and events rarely described." Published November 12, 2009
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In the summer of 1942, 2nd Lt. Roswell Weil was eager to serve his country, but he also wanted to spare his parents the pain of separation. Published November 11, 2009
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Thirteen of the Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, traveled to New York City to participate for the first time in the nation's largest Veterans Day parade. Published November 11, 2009
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Dearr Ms. Vicki, My husband has spent three years in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past five years, and he is not even active-duty. He is in the National Guard. Published November 5, 2009
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When the Civil War broke out, many women were anxious to serve, too, although the Army only accepted male soldiers. Published November 5, 2009
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For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found -- or if anyone was looking. Published November 5, 2009
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There is a very old three-story brick row house on a busy Alexandria street directly across from a car-rental business, adjacent to one of the city's ubiquitous lobbyists associations and a few blocks from a Starbucks. Few of the hurried commuters who drive within yards of its front door every day have any idea of its despicable history. Published November 5, 2009
